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All obstacles in our path will vanish if only we observe the golden rule that we must not be impatient with those whom we consider to be in error. But we must be prepared if need be to suffer in our own person. -"Gandhiji's Dialogue with Christianity." https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

These difficulties were only passing, for the strict observance of the vow produced an inward relish distinctly more healthy, delicate, and permanent. -Gandhi, his autobiography, "The Story of My Experiments With Truth." https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth, even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood. -Gandhi, September 22nd, 1946 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

I would use the most deadly weapons if I believe that they would destroy it. I refrain only because the use of such weapons would only perpetuate the system, though it may destroy its present administrators. -Gandhi, Young India, March 17th, 1927. https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

My philosophy, if I can be said to have any, excludes the possibility of harm to one's cause by outside agencies. -Gandhi, July 25th, 1936 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence. -Gandhi, September 9th, 1940 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

I have sacrificed no principle to gain a political advantage. -Gandhi from the "Mind of Mahatma Gandhi" https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Habit is not nature. -Gandhi, "The Gita According to Gandhi" Nonviolence Daily - The Podcast https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Power rightly exercised must sit light as a flower. No one should feel the weight of it. -Gandhi, "Mahatma Gandhi, The Last Phase" Nonviolence Daily - The Podcast https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

The possession of anything then became a troublesome thing to me, and a burden. -Gandhi, "Young India," April 30th, 1925 Nonviolence Daily - The Podcast https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of humanity as self-sufficiency. -Gandhi, Young India, March 21, 1929 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted Nazism or Fascism. -Gandhi, May 18, 1940 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

A nation which allows itself to be influenced by the fear of death cannot attain swaraj and cannot retain it if somehow attained. -Gandhi, Navijivan, October 1921 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends. -Gandhi, Mahatma, Volume 4 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

We want to reach not the dead level, but unity in diversity. -Gandhi, From Yeravda Mandir https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

My experience has taught me that the law of progression applies to every righteous struggle. But in the case of Satyagraha it amounts to an axiom. -Gandhi, Satyagraha in South Africa https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

I am but a humble explorer of the science of nonviolence. Its hidden depths sometimes stagger me just as much as they stagger my fellow workers. -Gandhi, Young India, November 20, 1924 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Nonviolent action, without the cooperation of the heart and the head cannot produce the desired result. -Gandhi, Mahatma, Volume 5 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

I have, after much prayerful consideration, and after very careful examination of the government’s standpoint, pledged myself to offer satyagraha against the bills, and invited all men and women who think and feel like me to do likewise. -Gandhi, speech made at Madras, March 18, 1919 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

A Satyagrahi goes to prison, not to embarrass the authorities, but to convince them by demonstrating to them his innocence. -Gandhi, November 5, 1938 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory. -Gandhi, Mind of Mahatma Gandhi https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger. -Gandhi, Young India, September 15, 1920 https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

It is no nonviolence if we merely love those who love us. It is nonviolence only when we love those who hate us. -Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

I am endeavoring to see God through service of humanity, for I know that God is neither in Heaven nor down below, but in everyone. -Gandhi, Truth is God. https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony

Happiness has no exchange value. There’s no profit from it. -Gandhi, Gandhi to Vinoba, by Lanzo del Vasto https://www.mettacenter.org/nonviolencedaily Music by https://skyhidigital.bandcamp.com/album/the-third-harmony